Hybrid Access Femtocells in Overlaid MIMO Cellular Networks with Transmit Selection under Poisson Field Interference

This paper analyzes the performance of hybrid control-access schemes for small cells (such as femtocells) in the context of two-tier overlaid cellular networks. The proposed hybrid access schemes allow for sharing the same downlink resources between the small-cell network and the original macrocell...

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Autores: AbdelKhalek Abdelnabi, Amr, Al-Qahtani, Fawaz S., Radaydeh, Redha M., Shaqfeh, Mohammed
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:IMDEA Networks Institute
Repositorio:IMDEA Networks Institute Digital Repository
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.networks.imdea.org:20.500.12761/465
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12761/465
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2755006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hybrid access schemes
femtocells
twotier cells
MIMO
transmit selection
Poisson Interference
MRC
imperfect feedback
TAS/MRC
stochastic geometry
outage probability
average error rate
asymptotic performance
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Sumario:This paper analyzes the performance of hybrid control-access schemes for small cells (such as femtocells) in the context of two-tier overlaid cellular networks. The proposed hybrid access schemes allow for sharing the same downlink resources between the small-cell network and the original macrocell network, and their mode of operations are characterized considering post-processed signalto-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs) or pre-processed interference-aware operation. The work presents a detailed treatment of achieved performance of a desired user that benefits from MIMO arrays configuration through the use of transmit antenna selection (TAS) and maximal ratio combining (MRC) in the presence of Poisson field interference processes on spatial links. Furthermore, based on the interference awareness at the desired user, two TAS approaches are treated, which are the signal-tonoise (SNR)-based selection and SINR-based selection. The analysis is generalized to address the cases of highlycorrelated and un-correlated aggregated interference on different transmit channels. In addition, the effect of delayed TAS due to imperfect feedback and the impact of arbitrary TAS processing are investigated. The analytical results are validated by simulations, to clarify some of the main outcomes herein.